TO M. N. POKROVSKY

Written:Written on December 5, 1920Published:First published in 1928 in the journalArkhivnoye DyeloNo. IV (17).

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      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 36,

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ComradeM. N. Pokrovsky

ComradeM. N.,

Icongratulate you very much on your success. I was
extremely pleased with your new book,Russian History in
Brief Outline. The presentation and approach are original.
It reads with tremendous interest. I think it ought to
be translated into the European languages.

Letme make a small remark. To turn it into atextbook(and it should become one), it needs to besupplementedwith achronological index. This is what I mean: do it
approximately in this way
(1) a column of dates;
(2) a column
of bourgeois assessments (briefly);
(3) a column ofyour,
Marxist assessment,with references to the pages of your
book.

Pupilsshould knowbothyour bookandtheindex, so
that there should be nosuperficiality, so that they shouldknow the facts, so that they should learn to compare the
old science and the new. What’s your opinion about this
supplement?

Withcommunist greetings,Yours,Lenin